Achilles Frydman (March 19, 1904,

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– 1940) was a Polish

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player.

Biography

He lived in

where he took 4th place (1930, 1931, 1934) and tied for 5-6th (1933) in the city championships. In 1935, he took 5th in Warsaw at the 3rd

Polish Chess Championship Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the results of the tournament (mainly), the Polish Chess Federation selects the national and subsequ ...

, an event won by

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. The same year, he took 7th in Łódź (Tartakower was the victor once more). He was himself the winner at Łódź in 1936 and a year later, he retired from the 4th Polish Championship, held in

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, due to illness. During the latter stages of his life, he had a history of mental illness, which manifested itself in loud behaviour. He was even reported to have turned up in public, wearing little or no clothing. After a spell in an asylum, doctors warned him against playing any more chess. In 1940, Frydman was arrested by the

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, and died in a

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Notable chess games

Alexander Alekhine vs Achilles Frydman, Lodz 1928, Queen's Indian Defense, Capablanca Variation, E16, 1/2-1/2Achilles Frydman vs Stanisław Zawadzki, Warsaw 1935, 3rd POL-ch, Four Knights Game, Spanish, Classical Variation, C48, 1-0Achilles Frydman vs Jan Foltys
Jurata 1937, 4th POL-ch,

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, A52, 1/2-1/2

References

Edward Winter's Chess Notes - see 3567
1904 births 1940 deaths Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Jewish chess players Chess players from Łódź 20th-century Polish chess players 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-chess-bio-stub